The Jake Leg Jug Band @ The Jazz Centre UK
A third visit to the Jazz Centre for this fun, good-time country blues and vaudeville band. The Jake Leg Jug Band brings you the authentic sounds of 1920s and 20s America – jazz, blues, ragtime and gospel. Songs of murder, betrayal, gambling, liquor and redemption. With a live show that guarantees old-fashioned feel-good entertainment – transporting the audience back in time to the prohibition era, with a sound and look refined from 14 years on the road. Jake Leg’s Duncan Wilcox: “We play jazz, blues, ragtime, gospel, vaudeville, and old-time music. The skiffle movement was basically the British interpretation of the earlier American jug band movement, just like the trad jazz movement was a reinterpretation of the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz, and the British Blues invasion of the 60s mirrored the Chicago electric blues of the 50s. It’s feel-good music and there is a lack of that in the mainstream…
when & where
- Jun 6, 2026, 14:00
- The Jazz Centre UK, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, UK
about The Jazz Centre UK
ticket information
- See venue link for details